Helen Candlish

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Lovely in Lingerie

Actually, HELEN CANDLISH looks lovely in any kind of clothing. She's pretty cute even in a barrel or a roll of lino. In lingerie, of course, she's one hundred per cent feminine, and that, bub, counts more with us than any barrel.

If you're travelling through Ayrshire at all this summer, on your way to the Highlands, you might be lucky enough to spot Helen. Keep your glasses at the ready and let someone else do the driving.

Helen loves modelling, and there's nothing that quite beats a model who loves her work and who looks just the way Helen looks.

And when modelling the attractive briefness of the modern girl's lingerie, Helen looks lovely. Which is where we came in.

Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961

Liz Harvey

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Joy of Living

It's daytime again.

The long dark night is over and joyfully LIZ HARVEY rushes out of doors to lap up the bright sunshine.

What fun. Larks are in the sky and dew on the grass. The ice cream man is just setting out with a tinkle of silvery bells.

The postman is delivering electric light bills. The next-door canary has just laid an egg.

Liz is loving every moment.

Away in the woods the forestry man has just bent his chopper in an attempt to get the better of a scheduled oak. The bus is picking up schoolchildren and Billy Barker is trying to sit next to Lulu Herringbone. Lulu is eating an apple she was going to save until lunchtime.

It's all fun.

Liz lives in Bournemouth. Liz is entrancingly curvy. Liz is full of the joys of living.

Anyone feel like being miserable?

Go and join Billy Barker then. He finished up sitting next to a market gardener carrying a case of onions. Freddy Blueberry pinched the seat next to Lulu and shared her apple with her. By the way, these photographs of Liz were taken when the daylight had gone all dark.

Beautiful Britons No 156 - November 1968

Helen Milligan

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Helen Milligan - Ruinous Fun

Another superb unpublished picture of Helen Milligan from the Field Day set of pictures used in Beautiful Britons No. 118, September 1965. Helen is seen having fun in a dilapidated old building on what appears to be a typical grey, cold English day. This particular picture, taken from a contact sheet, had a pen strike across it, presumably indicating that it was not to be used. I believe it is a great picture; Helen looks lovely with her hair beautifully pinned up. Thanks to Tocofan, for providing the picture.

Lynda Farrell

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Full Of the Joys

So, she is.

So would you be if you were young and beautiful instead of creaking with age. LYNDA FARRELL is irresistibly photogenic and in her mini dress is undeniably eye-catching.

Girls today are a joy in the eyes of any beholder, proving that you don't have to go to an art gallery to bring pleasure to your tired mince pies.

Lynda brings joy to the observer even when she's boarding a bus, and when she's crossing the road at the traffic lights the poor old worn-out motorists sit up as if they're giving off sparks. A bouquet of flowers is a delight, a view of the Swiss Alps superb, but Lynda tripping a joyful light fantastic over a pedestrian crossing makes a gorgeous colour slide for your projector.

As she lights up the screen all your friends say what a lovely shot of the High Street traffic lights, do show it again. And you show it again and all your friends say well, you should take more colour slides like that one instead of getting so obsessed with the Swiss Alps.

After all, one alp is very much like another, but Lynda is full of the joys and ecstatically inimitable.

In short, a smasher.

Span No 156 - August 1967

Jackie West

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Jackie

Is anyone fully cognisant of exactly how we're all going to be rich and prosperous when we finally get into the Common Market? The politicians are certain it's going to lift us out of our slough of economic despond, and if you can think of any reason to doubt politicians keep it to yourself. Meantime we wonder if we'd get in any sooner if we sent JACKIE WEST to see mon general. Mon general is the gentleman impervious to all the Anglo-Saxons he's met up to now. Could he really say "Non, non," to Jackie?

Span No 163 - March 1968

Joan Glover

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Joan Glover - Anyone For Tennis

Joan Glover only appeared three times for ToCo, twice in Beautiful Britons books No. 109 and 123, both from the same photo session. Joan made her debut for ToCo in Span No. 112, December 1963, in a set titled "No Difference," where she is depicted having fun in the countryside with a random selection of sports equipment—typical of ToCo's randomness. Unfortunately, this picture was never chosen for publication. Joan certainly possessed a stunning figure; it is regrettable that we did not see more of her for reasons that may remain unknown. We must appreciate the small glimpses we have. Many thanks to Tocofan for this nice contribution.

Toni Townsend

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Folksy

Mad about folk music is TONI TOWNSEND.

And seen in the sylvan environment of a woodland glade, Toni looks very folksy herself. Actually, guys, she's an advertising assistant, and although they have nothing to do with her job, you might like to have nothing to do with her job, you might like to know her statistics are 37-23-37. She designs and makes her own clothes, she can play a guitar and she's just the kind of girl who makes us realise life is full of vivaciously pretty pictures.

Spick No 174 - May 1968

Linda Deane

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Open The Gate

It's easier if the gate is open and a girl can walk through, but when it's shut and LINDA DEANE has to climb over it does make a prettier picture. Prettier pictures are our line of country. Yours can be magnificent bulls. It's a free country.

Spick No 190 - September 1969

Heidi Meister

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Pause In the Park

It was just one of those lunchtime strolls for HEIDI MEISTER, and after a morning devoted to singeing the beards off her boss's competitors, as well as to re-arranging the flowers on his desk, Heidi found the peace and tranquillity of the Berlin Park delightfully soothing. Heidi is not the sort of secretary who comes all over frenzied when business progress seems entirely indivisible from turmoil, panic and the crash of phones being hurled about.

"If you must thunder about your executive suite," she said very coolly to her boss the other day, "the removal of your boots would make it quieter for the rest of us.

Completely intimidated, her boss meekly removed his boots. He'd been on a weekend climbing holiday in Bavaria and hadn't had time to go home for his shoes. The holes in his socks made him blush. The futility of it all was too much for Heidi so she went out into the park to get herself re-orientated. it made a nice lunchtime break for the passing photographer as well.

Spick No 174 - May 1968

Catherine Small

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Sleigh Belle

Well, not all of us hogged the fireside during the recent snow blitz. Some of us took off from our armchairs to participate in winter sports. Like CATHERINE SMALL of Glasgow, for instance. It takes more than a ten-foot drift to beat a bonny Scot, especially one who's found a toboggan in her attic.

Maybe if she could have found ski trews as well, Catherine would have been a little better equipped all round, except that the frills and spills in the snow wouldn't have looked as gay as they do here.

But what do you do with a wet skirt? All that snow may look like a dazzling platform to fairyland, but once you've rolled in it you find its pretty damp stuff.

Well, never mind-when you're wet, you're wet, so here we go for another spill.

Span No 103 - March 1963

Angela Shaw

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Igloo Look

Fascinating, those Eskimoes.

They eat decomposed fish, you know, and it gives them a lovely complexion. They wear huge boots and thick furs, and they always look as if they're expecting the weather to be considerably parky.

ANGELA SHAW isn't an Eskimo, but she does have a beautiful igloo look in her white fur ensemble. All the fish Angela eats has to be fresh, and as her complexion is lovely too, we're not sure if we've proved anything or tossed an argument into the arena.

You work it out. We're going to find an igloo.

Beautiful Britons No 138 - May 1967

Heidi Sepan

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Welcome Visitor

Over here from West Germany is HEIDI SEPAN.

She's getting on famously, she's bought herself some genuine London mini-skirts, but her seamed nylons are German. London dollies rarely wear seams now, either in tights or stockings, but Heidi has a yen for them.

Like everything else which is different, a seamed stocking makes the fellers look, especially when topped by a brief mini-skirt. All the girls thought seams had gone out for ever, but once they saw Heidi walking in her mini and her seams in the King's Road, Chelsea, they began to wonder if they weren't missing out an old fashion that was a new craze.

Our welcome visitor from West Germany knows a wrinkle or two when it comes to catching the eye in a mini-skirt and a slinky pair of nylons. She's dishy.

Span No 178 - June 1969

Maggie McCully

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Maggie McCully – Back Office Beauty

Another great picture from Tocofan, I think taken from a contact sheet. Maggie McCully is standing on what must be, by now, that infamous back office ToCo table that has been seen so many times in their magazines. Maggie has a slightly odd expression, which is possibly why it was never selected to be published. However, she certainly has a fantastic pair of legs hidden under that very typical style of dress that she seemed to favour so much.